XML Q&A: industry pros weigh in on text format.(extensible markup language)

Since receiving the endorsement of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1998, Extensible Markup Language (XML) has far exceeded expectations in terms of popularity, (1) allowing groups of people and organizations in domains from music to mathematics, history to hill walking (2) to easily create their own coding systems for structuring, indexing, and linking text files on the Web.

If events such as the 2003 BACnet Conference and Expo are any indication, (3) XML has captured the attention--and imagination--of the engineering community, which sees it as a way to extend the ...

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